Overview

About This Course

This five-day course is designed primarily for IT professionals who have some experience with Windows Server. It is designed for professionals who will be responsible for managing storage and compute by using Windows Server 2016, and who need to understand the scenarios, requirements, and storage and compute options that are available and applicable to Windows Server 2016

Audience Profile

Audience Profile

This course is intended for IT professionals who have some experiencing working with Windows Server, and who are looking for a single five-day course that covers storage and compute technologies in Windows Server 2016. This course will help them update their knowledge and skills related to storage and compute for Windows Server 2016.

Candidates suitable for this course would be:

Windows Server administrators who are relatively new to Windows Server administration and related technologies, and who want to learn more about the storage and compute features in Windows Server 2016.

IT professionals with general IT knowledge, who are looking to gain knowledge about Windows Server, especially around storage and compute technologies in Windows Server 2016.

Describe the high availability and disaster recovery technologies in Windows Server 2016.

Plan, create, and manage a failover cluster.

Implement failover clustering for Hyper-V virtual machines.

Configure a Network Load Balancing (NLB) cluster, and plan for an NLB implementation.

Create and manage deployment images.

Manage, monitor, and maintain virtual machine installations.

Course Outline

Course Outline

Module 1: Installing, upgrading, and migrating servers and workloads

This module explains how to prepare and install Nano Server and Server Core. This module also explains how to upgrade and migrate server roles and workloads. Finally, this module explains how to choose an activation model based on your environment characteristics.

Lessons

Introducing Windows Server 2016

Preparing and installing Nano Server and Server Core

Preparing for upgrades and migrations

Migrating server roles and workloads

Windows Server activation models

Lab : Installing and configuring Nano Server

Implementing Nano Server

Completing post-installation tasks on the Nano Server

Performing remote management

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Choose the appropriate version of the Windows Server operating system, and describe the installation options and new features of Windows Server 2016.

Prepare and install Nano Server and Server Core.

Consider whether an upgrade or migration is the best approach, and use tools to help determine upgrade or migration suitability.

Migrate server roles and workloads within a domain and across domains or forests.

Choose an activation model based on your environment characteristics.

Module 2: Configuring local storage

This module explains how to manage disks and volumes in Windows Server 2016.

Lessons

Managing disks in Windows Server 2016

Managing volumes in Windows Server 2016

Lab : Managing disks and volumes in Windows Server 2016

Creating and Managing virtual hard disks by using Windows PowerShell

Converting virtual hard disks from .vhd to .vhdx

Resizing a volume

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Manage disks in Windows Server 2016.

Manage volumes in Windows Server 2016.

Module 3: Implementing enterprise storage solutions

This module describes the direct-attached storage (DAS), network-attached storage (NAS), and storage area networks (SANs). It also helps you understand Microsoft Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS) Server, data center bridging, and Multipath I/O (MPIO). Additionally, this module also compares Fibre Channel, Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI), and Fibre Channel Over Ethernet (FCoE), and describes how to configure sharing in Windows Server 2016.

Lessons

Overview of direct-attached storage, network-attached storage, and storage area networks

Comparing Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and FCoE

Understanding iSNS, data centre bridging, and MPIO

Configuring sharing in Windows Server 2016

Lab : Planning and configuring storage technologies and components

Planning storage requirements

Configuring iSCSI storage

Configuring and managing the share infrastructure

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe DAS, NAS, and SANs, and the usage scenarios for each topology.